. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . tion at allcomparable to that of a balloon at rest. Picture to your-self, reader, two persons suspended in a small basketslung under an inflated bag of huge dimensions buoyantin the air, immediately beneath a canopy of mist, andin the elevated plane of evaporating
. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . tion at allcomparable to that of a balloon at rest. Picture to your-self, reader, two persons suspended in a small basketslung under an inflated bag of huge dimensions buoyantin the air, immediately beneath a canopy of mist, andin the elevated plane of evaporating and coloured clouds,whose grotesque forms are gradually becoming lost amid theshadows of greyhooded evening, in perfect stillness, withoutany perceivable motion, and looking down upon a great andapparently concave amphitheatre, divided like a map, andmade up of objects rendered too diminutive by their dis-tance to be well defined, and which appear to have noaltitude at the great height from which we view them ;—andyou may get some idea of the sensation produced by a viewfrom a becalmed balloon. One seems, as it were, to havebeen divested of all terrestrial connexions, and, raised abovethe smoke and stir of that dim spot which men call earth,to be breathing, in delicious tranquillity, the pure ether ofthe celestial m We found at about half past six oclock that the- balloonwas still gently ascending; and at this time I becameconscious again of increased altitude by a loud snapping inthe ears. At length we thought it time to prepare for ourdescent, and the valve being opened by pulling the string,we began to sink down very rapidly, and soon got into a faintbreath of wind, probably only some stray eddy from the in-terstices of clouds, or the replenishing breeze of one ofthose slight electrical vacuums which I believe often takeplace in variable weather. Perceiving that we had againdescended into the current of air which blew next the earth,I proposed to my companion t
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